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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m glad we can all acknowledge the economy is not so crash hot.

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Charles Qin is a Legend. Capital L.

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My current philosophy on life: you want to come into mine? Better be on my terms. Don’t like ‘em? There are eight billion other people on the planet.

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I had to come back. What else can I/we do?

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

How does this happen in Australia? One of the richest, most developed, advanced, and compassionate societies, and people are sleeping in tents. This morning, Woolloongabba Rotary Park.

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

每年的今天，虽然我在镜头前不允许穿任何黑色衣服，但我都会穿一件黑色的内搭。 64这事件非常可怕，值得被记住。但如今该讨论的不只是那件事本身，也是该多讨论为什么它不能被记住，以及这对14亿人的未来意味着什么。

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=qdsM... A popular gay vlogger from China came to Brisbane recently, and we had a chat about my experiences as a gay man in China & the challenges I faced following the passing of my late husband there.

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在广州12年,曾是明星外籍主持人,却因婚姻财产争议被迫回澳,回澳后他怎么看中国? | 专访 Part 1【北同】

YouTube video by Beitong北同

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…convince others that you are worthy or qualified. I reckon I do have skills that will one day become valuable. Could be 10, 20 years from now. Who knows. But I bet, when the time comes, I’ll be grateful for everything that’s happened & all of the valuable lessons I have learned.

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…extremely proud. Not just of the impact, especially in the earlier years that I made in South China, but also, for the most part, how I conducted myself during the good times & the rough patches. I guess, I am finally understanding my worth. And… that it’s enough to do that. There’s no need to…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…people both in China and Australia were horrible to me. But — I have something most of these people will never have. And that is real-world, long-term experience surviving & thriving within a Chinese state institution. And I survived. With my dignity in tact. I can look back and say I am…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…my late husband, dealing with multiple approaches for espionage, trying to figure out where I fit in a sudden new world of heightened political tensions between China and Australia as a visible Aussie in China… oh, and there was a pandemic raging. So yeah. I had a rough couple of years. And…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

… as an Aussie, sometimes I had a chance to speak directly to millions of Chinese people in their own language. How many Aussies get to do that? And… for some reason, I let detractors who didn’t know me from a bar of soap get to me. Make me feel small, ignorant. I was also grieving the death of…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…from my desk & studio for days? But then, I got a 20,000 yuan bonus, and people started to treat me a little differently after it was announced. People started calling me “Teacher Ha”, instead of “Little Ha”. I hosted kids shows. Entertainment shows. I was a judge on a signing competition…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…bust their behinds for entire careers trying to win one. And little old me, a part-bogan from Ipswich, Australia, won it. When I was told, I was kind of annoyed. I didn’t understand the significance, and my first thought was “how am I going to deal with the logistics of needing to be away…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…privilege sometimes. But the majority of the time? I competed with Chinese people doing Chinese things. Sometimes I failed spectacularly, sometimes I succeeded, and, for example, won the China News Award (First Prize), which is China’s single-most prestigious journalism award. Chinese reporters…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

And, with the shows and programmes I did. I tried to stay away from the foreign-cast entertainment shows. I don’t begrudge those who went on them. I watch them, they are entertaining. But… I always wanted to succeed based on skill and merit, not my foreign face. And I won’t lie, I used that…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

They weren’t corny songs about how amazing China’s development is. They were ballads, breakup songs… and people enjoyed them for what they were. A music video online with a foreigner singing in Chinese is a novelty. But people voting for it to get radio airplay? You can’t see me sing on the radio.

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…Mandarin Chinese. I know all of the go-to “I love China!” tropes like the back of my hand. But I didn’t go down that path. I chose to write mainstream Chinese songs. I had one song that made it to the top-10 on a national chart, and multiple songs that made it to No. 1 on more local charts…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…exclusively Chinese colleagues. I wasn’t someone who saw easy money if I said what the government wanted. I could have so easily been the biggest “shill” with the biggest red packets. I can speak Chinese fluently, I can sing (and write my own Chinese lyrics), I can host live TV shows in…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…very Chinese intuition. And somehow, I managed not just to survive, but thrive in it for 8-9 years (I don’t count the last 3 as thriving; just barely surviving). So, I worked successfully in a Chinese state media environment for years, in the same way as my Chinese colleagues, and with…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…would say about me. Now that I’ve had some time to think, process, and breathe, and after having gained a new skill and engaging in a completely different industry for a while, I do have some new perspective. I did something very unique. GRT is a very, very small pocket of China, but it is a…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…weren’t going to create a whole new system just for one person— although they did try very hard initially. I think, for a while, I got lumped in with some other people in China. And I kind of diminished my own achievements & insight, because I started internalising some of the things people…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…in this regard. For a good solid five years, after I had more or less adapted to it, I worked in exactly the same way as all of my Chinese colleagues. I had to navigate bureaucracy, manage relationships, work overtime & seven days a week most weeks. I was the only foreign employee. They…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…to a Chinese person, or a China scholar, and tell them things that surprise or sometimes even shock them, and it is a bit jarring, because even though I may not necessarily like what I am saying, it just became part of my “normal” — things to deal with on a daily basis. And… I do feel very lucky…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…because I was there. Even though I was the producer sometimes, or host, or whatever. Because I was a foreigner, an “outsider”, that somehow became an “insider”. I didn’t really know it at the time, but I really got a chance to be a fly on the wall in so many situations. Sometimes, I’ll talk…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…people got sick of explaining notices/directives that somehow related to me, so they either showed them to me, or took a photo and sent them to me on WeChat. Heaps of meetings where we’d be negotiating/discussing things, and people would subtly or uncomfortably ask whether they could continue…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

…talking to people about China) that make me think. In so many ways, what I experienced was unique. I worked for provincial media, and was the only foreign employee for 7+ years. There was no special department for foreigners, I was just a member of the team. I sat in meetings, after a while…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

When I was in China, my contract was with the News Department of GRT. GRT had an international department, an “International Communication Centre”, and an International Channel (some of my shows were broadcast here), but I worked in news. It is little details like this (that I remember when…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I’ve never been that confident in my Chinese. I think it’s because (actually grateful for this), I lived and worked around Chinese TV hosts who all had PERFECTLY standard Mandarin… could never catch up. I certainly tried! Anyway, GPT complimented my Chinese, so I asked it to be brutally honest and…

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

每周日早上去教堂唱歌，像是在提前交本周的“良心税”🙏😝

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/04/2026

Research links heavy social media use not only to declines in mental health but to measurable cognitive effects — on attention, memory and focus — that in some studies resemble accelerated aging. The solution is surprisingly simple: Take a break. wapo.st/47QIXt2

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

@mattbevan.bsky.social that was some very decent pronunciation of Chinese names there 👍

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... One Nation supporters are deplorable. And we should make it known that we think they are deplorable, again and again and again. This is not politics. It is ideology. I respect political opinion, not ideological bullshit.

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One Nation candidate published antisemitic, racist and homophobic posts

A One Nation candidate in the South Australian election was accused of domestic abuse, bullying and harassment, while another made racist, antisemitic and homophobic social media posts, raising fresh ...

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I think a deep tension between progressives and conservatives is that conservative culture often places moral value on hierarchy, order, and inherited social roles, while progressives are more likely to question those structures — something that can provoke outrage among people invested in them.

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Hazza 赫瀚睿 @hazzaharding.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

How does Elon actually make any money? I don’t know… I feel like it is a mix of both. Whatever is going on, it is quite alarming. Too much to wrap my head around.

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